Personal, Relational and Job Resources’ Effect on In-Role Job Performance through Thriving at Work: Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Workload

Thriving at work as a psychological phenomena enhance positive personal and organizational outcome and become interesting topic for research. The aim of this study is to examine whether core-self evaluation, workplace civility and managerial coaching positively influence employees’ in-role job performance through thriving at work. Further, it explores the moderation effects of workload on thriving at work in a line with JD-R theory. By using a survey technique, we utilized 311 data collected from private bankers of Nepal. The findings from our study were as follows. first, core self evaluation, workplace civility and managerial coaching are positively associated with thriving at work. second, thriving at work fully mediates the relationships between core-self evaluation and workplace civility and in-role job performance, and partially mediates the association between managerial coaching and in-role job performance. Lastly, contrary to other expectation, the workload is revealed as a hinderance job demand in the context of Nepalese Banking industry. The moderation effects of workload were significant but negative. In conclusion, the theoretical and practical implications are discussed.